Tag: Paris
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Paris | Comptoir de L’image
I am convinced that the whole history of 20th century art and design can be found in this tiny bookshop in the Marais.
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Weird but Wonderful | Enlightened
Marché Paul Bert, un des Marchés aux Puces de St Ouen, Paris
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Style Moment | Marché Vernaison, Paris
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” Antoine de Saint Exupéry (1900 – 1944) French novelist (The Little Prince) and aviator
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Paris | Musée Carnavalet
On the rue de Sévigné in the Marais neighborhood of Paris is the former home of Madame de Sévigné. The Hôtel Carnavalet is where she wrote a series of famous letters to her daughter, chronicling the life of 17th century Paris society. In 1880, her home and the neighboring Hôtel Le Peletier de Saint Fargeau,…
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Weird but Wonderful | Odd man out
The Marais, Paris
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Eye on Design | Paris | Le Corbusier house
“Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.” Le Corbusier (1897 – 1965) A striking white modernist structure is tucked into the Square du Docteur Blanche, a stark contrast to the traditional stone chimney-topped townhouses. Built in the early…
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Style Moment | Vintage books in the Puces
“The idea of the past assumes its fullest significance and value only in those who are filled with a passion for the future.” Paul Valéry (1871-1945) French poet and philosopher
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Style Moment | Astier de Villate, Paris
“I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may – light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.” John Constable (1776 – 1837) English painter
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If it’s Europe, it must be Fashion Week
I’m in Paris and it’s fashion week. I didn’t know it would be fashion week when I booked my trip, but I should have guessed…because in the past year, without planning it, I’ve hit fashion week wherever I go.
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Style Moment | Paris garden
“Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was missing. ” Paola Antonelli, Senior curator, Museum of Modern Art, New York
